...I do. It's true.
However, I've recently realized that outlining can be an immense help if you want to create effects such as foreshadowing. What to do?
Now, if you're like me, you see special events in your story playing in your head like little movie clips- or perhaps just special little moments that you just can't wait to describe- sort of like when you rent a DVD and find that it stops at one spot and starts playing at another. (Which is of course bad, because then you can't see the movie as a whole.)
So! Recently I was reading this article about a type of outlining called storyboarding. This is when you take all the events that keep playing over and over in your head and set them down onto seperate notecards- and then take these notecards and arrange them in some sort of chronological order. At first, it seems kind of cheap because the storyline doesn't make sense when you read it- there are a lot of obvious gaps.
[This is the cue for the lightbulb to go on. ]
After doing the preliminary stuff, I went back and thought up scenes to go in the gaps, and then transfered it into your basic Roman numeral outline:
1. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS
----a. Detail #1
----b. Detail #2
etcetera.
And then the only thing I had to do was write.
The verdict? It's easy, painless, and kinda fun!
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